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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ↗

— Amy Lowell

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I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#alone #am #beloved #drops #fire

There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. ↗

— Francis Cabot Lowell

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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#cannot #nothing #persuaded #say #who

Folks never understand the folks they hate. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#hate #never #understand

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#alone #dead #foolish #never #opinions

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#character #needful #society #solitude #wholesome